Development from Within
Subtitle: Survival in Rural Africa
Contributors: Fiona MacKenzie (Editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780415035675
First sentence: Social struggle within rural Africa, whether it takes a visible form of co-ordinated action vis a vis local power structures or less overt but perhaps more sustained forms of 'everyday' resistance (Scott 1986) at intra or extra household levels, dispels any myth of an undifferentiated, immobile peasantry through whom a strategy either of 'grass-roots initiatives and community self-management', as proposed by the ECA (Economic Commission for Africa) (UNECA 1989a: 47), or of greater community responsibility for 'development', in the words of the World Bank (WB 1989: 54), may be glibly promoted.